Improvement in envelopes



A L. J'. HENRY.

Y ENvELoPEs.

No. 185,103. Patenfed Dec.5,1876.

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ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI J. HENRY, OF SAN FRANCISGO,`GALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ENVELOPES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent vNo. 185,103, dated December 5, 1876; application fil ed May 18, 1876.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI J. HENRY, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful 'Improvements in Envelopes, Newspaper-Wrappers, 85e.; and I do hereby declare the following` description and accompanying drawings are suflicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention without further invention or experiment. l

My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of envelopes, newspaper pouches or wrappers, Src.; and it consists in a novel construction of the envelope in part of a fibrous unsized material suitable for use as a blotting-pad.

The ordinary construction of an envelope of sized paper, necessitates care to prevent blotting the address after being written, and an envelope of this kind has nothing to make it worthy of preservation. I, therefore, construct my envelope with the back A for the superscription, made of the usual sized paper. The opposite side B I make of unsized or blotting paper, sothlat, when many letters are to be written, each succeeding letter .or paper serves to blot the ink upon the preceding one. An envelope of this kind will often be very convenient to the recipient, and will therefore be preserved.

For newspapers,instead of the ordinary form of open wrapper, I prefer to use an envelope or pouch, closed at'one end, and having aflap at the other, so that the paper 'can be placed entirely within the pouch, and protected from abrasion or dirt. One side of the pouch is made, as before described, of unsized or blotting paper.

The mode of writing addresses will be facilitated by the use of such 'an envelope, and

its usefulness will cause it to be preserved, so that the senders business-card will be retained in a prominentposition.

It will be seen that ordinary envelopes can be readily adapted by simply attaching the fibrous or unsized paper to their backs, after LEVI J. HENRY. [1.. s.)

Witnesses GEO. H. STRONG, CEAS. G. PAGE. 

